Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position to find out anything that they want to know", he said. "It generally takes me about eight weeks to build a shell, and the total cost is $900, although when we have shells built, they cost about $1500. When it comes to accidents to shells, it is singular to note that it is the experienced men who step through the bottom, and not the novices, simply because the former are careless and too sure of themselves. A University cox is also generally more apt to get in accidents while on practice rows than a greenhorn; a few years...
...turned to the first page, second section, it is possible that the small Hoover mouth would have fallen. Trenchant Liberal Walter Lipmann had read Citizen Coolidge's cool renunciation of presidential aspirations in the Satevepost (TIME, Oct. 5), had detected therein no accolade for President Hoover but a singular difference in character between Citizen and President. Excerpts...
...physical tendency throughout the universe is on the whole downward, toward disintegration and dissipation, the organic movement, on this planet at least, is upward, and life structures on the whole becoming more complex throughout the course of organic evolution. From the viewpoint of physics, life and mind are thus singular and exceptional phenomena, not in line with the movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic epoch...
...Ashcans." Few days later the meticulous Boston Transcript reprinted the editorial, changed the headline to: "Ashcans Are Ashcans." Observed the Herald Tribune last week: "So they may be-in Boston. In New York they is. But wherever it may be read the Transcript certainly are the Transcript. The singular verb is inadequate to a paper of such imperturbable grammar...
Oddly enough I dreamt in the night, and a singular dream it was too. For I was married, hut to an old hag who was burning my humidor and thwarting all pleas for justice in the matter. Then suddenly in the dream she died having uttered the last word and sealed my mouth to an humble and eternal silence...